The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.